Show p TAI ea 1 NA 1 vill continued li 1 1 atal mak find 1 hava to to 8 shall hall we a b turn ress but bu t w who ll 11 0 can n aul ua of the s teal n b oats neo one the U that the terae y ann ell wh it nn an of eighteen I 1 hot t iron from will teakettle kettle tta walt the 1 A all 1 Is s ready coralo do e 4 I 1 m word 0 of 18 a ever signal tinned d thel their 0 roving o ang glances W went ent the stalls to 1 at the acs edid idid cabbages croons gonei under which d oj des cutlass hilt rusty protruded p d now ono one frown frowningly Y p pushed gorgio Gor glo with his dron hp he was on y then about tho dark sarec beets ts of the carre tnt ball dorleans dOrl cans tho the dilme at II I 1 the 11 fast the door althe as rising he low lov gal galleries leric 9 ct t windows tilled oiled with 0 on n tte the half 1 were 0 B of a fi to t tile o D deable table ours du amours am afton tom les ered on d flery temp s conlen wo nl frowned batea 2 es billed in giddy with and taboo 1 ocy cilleY the aristo carrel S vieux ladles of tile AK were of tile young fach 0 there and now not steal would ww leg o the revel evel T there here arose to the ht hat led the nm t Is there on nn an Ins tiit it the oaks oak es no tight chan change ge from laughing brush together in affra y or tempered dons of the atho the hot anesh or french regime or nome borne a Kentuck kentuckians ians dolyn river elmange the cards that meant n or pistols at sunrise young oung count de Al monaster wils hoffing coterie nt lit tile vestibule town had bad been agog with this about ib oct him today to cried do marigny Marl gny igar is new 11 house ouse guest ia s raoul th the 0 proud entertain his is gallant pt llant saz arac n rac I 1 better you knitted tho the family sliver ere eyoU you at to bed I 1 they say lafatte put foni your hospitality to tile the baram i swamps and at once a lady dla als froni from her hotel I 1 am just back from a search my it was a shabby trick hut but e laughing coughing hing gallants crowded a lafatte turns up and at once ilana lain Is in an uproar I 1 the brit consal fumes and colonel carr ills his lady may well be in n tropics topics within a week I 1 bill abl shouted the chevellier Che Clie veller de bleil evil here Is alderman daml who was once buccaneer himi say any we tire are unworthy gal I 1 under the spanish governors ronia nil all bo be out seeking to res rei llie lady ourselves rather than such romance to tile autuori author marigny twigged jabed tome come we have a new beauty beauto ill 11 introduce you for one of the contre to canses An anglaia Ang ginis lala retorted raouf reservedly do doce here as you know ly I 1 so EO haughty A round and 0 all oft off to the seraphine Seraph lne tal out started this would never lie conspirators roust must seize the r before the party assembled on w ks he was relieved to see ree arrendy chogen to alad income in come came on smiling waving a to 0 o the merrymakers merry makers 2 Is lt it not enough sh here 2 make ea a long lon night ea on the ie m hillo slid discuss fluss tiff airs ah 0 eul r dominique I 1 nm glad yon 1 thuel and A ons leur de almon si abo has been en won over tit at lost last W PR the he napoleon expedition I 1 curious rious lind ves eyes 5 wets leveled on ti the I 1 e pill g you yung young nian mail who followed Q to S alque winked again A buzz of az talk ran around orol lD MS 9 these two who surely must fi chose ab 0 lit lafitte which lot to d disclose to tile the nuy ot shouted good ka a the flag monts for the ji e seraphine amnet I 1 atwill it ln la N american se not be good taste W sad and colors now vl the united seail states es at do we captain bov putto put to searl tt pulled his S on tile the laughing Is 8 to be b 0 alls 13 bt to lo be settled also 0 o second in coin co liitt B ailed it leoca another 1101 a 91 youth 01 ol i j 11 11 1 ar th inerny h y creole aca s 1 eusa 1 costliest cost liest Ich V ild coheh 9 over vor bar tr litte und d of rca t the ere crys the 0 EBos ebosh press w vas I 1 jei 0 pe and eprom idil uc tile I 1 isy and dojun i d no to de kim onam R loil fIlO bant xa muttered nt ell awat by charles tenney jackson copyright by the dobbs dobb martill company dor der about a respectable official of tile the city and tile tho sen sea la is calling AS to jean lie suld said with pointed abruptness what do you know Mons monsieur leur the young aristocrat could not be ba sure of how much the city conspirators had imparted to tho the campt complacent t dominique lie ile therefore shrugged indifferently the old fox Is on fa an millar trails monsieur dominique do you know of any reason for absenting yourself tonight rh kh queried the alderman darkly then a hand on hla his shoulder jarvis tho the portrait pointer painter of the vieux carrel cairo for once cleanly arrayed in velvet stock and a high hat I 1 jarvis incredibly sober nodding to alderman dominique ho he drew raoul aside the fools found I 1 was right ell eli A lady stolen from our streets and this mazarac of tho the packets Is my tild old captain ito ho smiled with sonic some twitching pathos about his nervous lips jean and my lady ali ah one might have gues guessed 1 lie ile stopped abruptly what Is it jarvis Jarv ls raoul stared nt fit him plainly he know knew nothing of mademoiselle lestrans Le disappearance upon tile the english bark tonight slowly beating a way out of the belize pass to tile open gulf sober muttered the jester that Is it 1 I 1 have vowed to keep sober for her sake from half past eleven to quite ono one 0 it was about tile the hour of the cam camellia ellla ah to a staircase fellow in the moonlight P 1 nis his friend laughed curiously but without understanding every night continued jarvis half past eleven to one it Is a disastrous intermission however I 1 have to arrange all my hours both at the studio and the grog shops romance should keep better hours he sighed love has come like a flame to my darkness Alons monsieur leur I 1 I 1 who would have laid my dull head bond na as a stone among tile the other cobbles for her footstep and asked nothing I 1 she has hap gone they whisper willingly perhaps with him ah to play the part of baza rac one hoerl what are you driving at queried raoul this muttered jarvis 1 I regret lie he was not himself I 1 would hove have had an affair at the oaks can you imagine me sober well arrayed and speared through the stomach because of a woman I 1 cannot on second thought of course not the time monsieur the time de Al monaster starred shot a suspicious glance at the towns je jester liter but jarvis was lot jot appa apparently ir antly in the conspiracy 1 ta 6 put aside my romance and lesure my bottle D nl ni not yet anid ald night lie he turned impatiently ond and gnawed ills his cuff jean has taken my lady hh eh belll ones friend Is ones friend I 1 raoul watched the mountebanks mount ebanks drawn hungry face at the end of the crowded bar then he wandered to the street vestibule the time for the attack must be approaching somewhere along tile the west bank of the mississippi sis sippi but bat a few miles above the Baroth rians must bo be gathered for the embarkation and the silent drift downstream now that ho he had time to soberly of it mind stumbled over the uncertainties of tile the wild mad venture igo he knew that about the city two score of adventurers hod had armed and awaited secretly to old aid the men of johannes and nez coupe from the deep swamp seizing the unguarded ship nt at her moorings even with he revel about her would not bo be difficult li it was the next step when an wind might leave the seraphine Seraph lne helpless and adrift in tile the lower reaches of tile the river de monaster almonaster Al watched the aces of ills his familiars about the boll ballroom roOM he had find been chaffed enough for ills entertainment of tile mysterious baza jac rac out of the west but bui even now low tile the heedless youth were forgetting it the affair was being left to the authorities the british colonel carr had bad already been courteously rejected from the company tile the gentry gantry while most of them had but the merest hearsay about what tile missing gamester mazarac Saz arac might have intended concerning concern lne Mad mademoiselle ernol lespron Le stron could not endure carrs infamous jest at Mo bla speros gaming room they believed indeed that the lady had bod fled of her own accord with the adventurer of the river pae packet hat whom rumor said was jean lafatte hb eh blent it was not the first fast affair of women for lafitte I there was s them the old story of tha govern governors ors lady when the grand terre achl chieftain efrain ars was lit at ills p power ower ROD raoul u I 1 saw in in the barro barroom rim a score of tossing glasses upraised to sonic borne speech that Bossiere bad concluded the seraphine Seraph lne 0 a dozen voices shouted I andio ond to the unknown flag she flies I 1 tho the goblets clinked and broke the air was a spray of cry crystal ital and cahrm champagne bubbles then the coups scattered e d nuta nut but about blut captain oss e flushed youths clamored on devil take tile tho dances I 1 mona montleur leur cirod s binquet awaits us on tile sera lillne lets finish the night there and n score of young men inen took up the no cry do AIn marigny rIgny come crowding to ills side come t herel you pelix ln barre aarre fill of youl you t you can dance on tho the docks decks but no women mind IT I 1 tills ls is ll a secret session of tho the napoleon plot I 1 yes ond you with us de almouns terl you are n third backer of the enterprise since you took over the baroness interests de Alino naster started os as tile tho jesting groups closed about him it was but eleven I 1 the conspirators across tile tho river would never droira that hint the gentlemen adventurers would quit tile the ball so early 1 lie ile began to protest us lis the youth streamed to the street streel but one glance nt at the gold laced faced tint hilt of the he Sern phines commander now inow leading the way and raoul whirled back and to the courtyard where tile the servants awaited at ills his low hall tits his groom came teton tho the ball Is breaking up cupl I 1 with oil all speed the word to tile tho market I 1 the octo octoroon toon vanished ellent silently lY room raoul turned tinned back through kigh the ballroom hta his heart beating wildly ro ele wondered it if any saw tits his perturbation it was too lute late to warn the barata that tile the plans had changed al ready far across the ruo rue royale pat past tile cathedral to the place barines dAr IA rines tho the aristocrats were trooping unarmed savo bare for their swords of fashion to encounter unsuspectingly the desperate renegades rene gades of lantto summoned again from their deep swamp refuges refuge I 1 madness the young man muttered they are ascending the gangway 1 the plot Is bostl mazarac will not daro lead tits his swamp bandits to lo face the gentlemen of the city already at their banquet seats I 1 ho he lingered irresolutely and than went to tile tho plaza if ho he could find one of the spies who had been all evening v watching the course of events nt at the revel and passing the word mouth to mouth out to the upper lovse levee so that tho the across the river might be apprised he could even yet ward off a disastrous failure but nowhere did ho he find one whom lie he could trust as being in tho the conspiracy spIr sp iracy ncy the groups of idling market men had scattered from the stalls the crowd on the rue do de to la levee gathered to watch this outdoor revel of the gentlemen adventurers of the napoleon ship was thickening along the roped path between these onlookers the gold hat of captain bossiere Boss lere moved with tho the gallants cheering in his wake the gay rosettes and lanterns in festooning festoon ing the ships rigging reflected upon the yellow flood murmuring along her side 1 I must be seen with them murmured do de monaster almonaster Al it to la a sorry lorry joke Sti stigarne daro dare not face this revel to seize a 0 ship no not for all his loves I 1 lie he found his place to the right of commander bossiere Boss lere fere de Bla marigny rignY had started a song of the day the flushed youths near him mo 1 comme cochon almin la boust bouet oah ahl I 1 shouted one catching sight of do de Al monaster and lie he translated tile the doggerel for a young AmerI american cOll c ensign n 1 I love you Is as a little alg loves the dudl rt it must be raoul seelig that lie he loves the barataria Bara Bar tarla ataria sw swamps amps raoul smiled but ills his glance was wall out from the quarter deck i awnings I 1 to the yellow silent flood of the mighty river big honest commander bus baere a real ren seaman oddly out of place among the laughing coill youths was unsteady from tile the toasts he had and there cried la barro Isco comos mrss another guest who must love the mud seeing that ile he frequently rolls roll 8 in hilt iff the guests shouted as another belated one came unsteadily down tho the carpeted gangway to tho the deck jarvis it t was the towns profligate whose hours tribute to his lady had tu anel to bacchus promptly with the clock the first bohemian bohe of the french quarter raised ills his hand in it was a staff with folded colors and behind him marched six grim fellows in tan or paulin hats red shirts and the now tight pants of the period cutlass ed and pi who without word took position along the rail and came to a 0 salute as jarvis bowled bawled a mocking der tho the flushed flus lied aristocrats stared then cheered when the mummer pirates broke to hoarse ion song 9 a creole air 0 of the day dt M aleu blitte t monde a 10 baguette the guests seized it in glee another gibe at the count de Aj almonas monaster TO CONTINUED |